Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: >> What is the point of "history -s args", then? What is it useful for? > > To add arbitrary data to the history list, for whatever reason a user > likes. I think the documentation is fairly clear on that.
To be more specific, it adds arbitrary data to the history list, but also necessarily removes an entry from the history list. This is exactly the combination you want when the user types "history -s foo bar baz" at the prompt, but it's tough to use programatically: How would you code a function for use in scripts that adds an entry "foo bar baz" to the history list without removing anything already on the history list? Dale
